Sunday, December 14, 2008
By Sajid Bashir
LAHORE: LITIGANTS, lawyers and visitors to District and Sessions Courts are facing numerous problems due to extremely poor cleanliness at new and old sessions court buildings.
The News survey of the sessions court showed that the situation inside the courtrooms and adjacent courtyards, stairs and car parks is really bad. Besides, poor sanitation and security arrangements are also causing inconvenience to visitors.
Cleanliness at new court rooms is also poor and litigants and visitors have complained that court authorities are paying no attention on cleanliness.
They say that like the old sessions court building, there are no seats and they have to keep standing.
Court officials have also complained that there are no wash rooms in the new sessions court building for official staff as well as visitors due to which they suffer a lot.
There is no also no cafeteria in the new sessions court building. Similarly, the old sessions court building and its court rooms, Bakhshi Khana, record room and lawyers make-shift chambers are in a very dilapidated condition.
There are heaps of garbage at the old sessions court and none of the building department officials as well as judicial officials had taken initiative to clean-up the court premises. Litigants have complained that there are heaps of garbage near courtrooms and lawyers makeshift chambers.
They say it is very difficult for them to breathe in such a dirty environment as pools of stagnant water and open manholes abound on court premises.
Talking to The News, Chaudhry Aslam, a lawyer, said that shortage of cleaning staff had resulted in garbage accumulating everywhere on court premises.
He said stinking emanating from garbage and stagnant water really annoys people. The record room of the sessions court is also in a miserable condition and thousands of files are found scattered.
These files can be destroyed with the passage of time and authorities are yet to transfer data to computers. Besides, the record room is too small. The Bakhsi Khana where police detain the under-trail prisoners is also in a miserable condition. The Bakhshi Khana, consisting of two small rooms, is without electricity and dirty water overflows from the manholes in front of it. Its size is too small to cope with the growing number of prisoners.
The parking place at the district and sessions court is not spacious and traffic jams inside and outside the court are a routine matter. Due to the lack of vacant places for parking, people have to park their vehicles far away from the court.
Talking to The News, District and Sessions Judge Lahore Syed Nasir Ali Shah said that authorities will soon overcome all the problems faced by litigants and lawyers.
He said that construction of new judicial complex was underway and it will be completed soon. He said that construction of a new record room and a Bakhsi Khana was about to complete.
He said that he had deputed two additional district and sessions judges to supervise the maintenance staff which will help improve conditions at district courts.
He said the Building XEN was responsible for dilapidated condition of courts.
The News survey of the sessions court showed that the situation inside the courtrooms and adjacent courtyards, stairs and car parks is really bad. Besides, poor sanitation and security arrangements are also causing inconvenience to visitors.
Cleanliness at new court rooms is also poor and litigants and visitors have complained that court authorities are paying no attention on cleanliness.
They say that like the old sessions court building, there are no seats and they have to keep standing.
Court officials have also complained that there are no wash rooms in the new sessions court building for official staff as well as visitors due to which they suffer a lot.
There is no also no cafeteria in the new sessions court building. Similarly, the old sessions court building and its court rooms, Bakhshi Khana, record room and lawyers make-shift chambers are in a very dilapidated condition.
There are heaps of garbage at the old sessions court and none of the building department officials as well as judicial officials had taken initiative to clean-up the court premises. Litigants have complained that there are heaps of garbage near courtrooms and lawyers makeshift chambers.
They say it is very difficult for them to breathe in such a dirty environment as pools of stagnant water and open manholes abound on court premises.
Talking to The News, Chaudhry Aslam, a lawyer, said that shortage of cleaning staff had resulted in garbage accumulating everywhere on court premises.
He said stinking emanating from garbage and stagnant water really annoys people. The record room of the sessions court is also in a miserable condition and thousands of files are found scattered.
These files can be destroyed with the passage of time and authorities are yet to transfer data to computers. Besides, the record room is too small. The Bakhsi Khana where police detain the under-trail prisoners is also in a miserable condition. The Bakhshi Khana, consisting of two small rooms, is without electricity and dirty water overflows from the manholes in front of it. Its size is too small to cope with the growing number of prisoners.
The parking place at the district and sessions court is not spacious and traffic jams inside and outside the court are a routine matter. Due to the lack of vacant places for parking, people have to park their vehicles far away from the court.
Talking to The News, District and Sessions Judge Lahore Syed Nasir Ali Shah said that authorities will soon overcome all the problems faced by litigants and lawyers.
He said that construction of new judicial complex was underway and it will be completed soon. He said that construction of a new record room and a Bakhsi Khana was about to complete.
He said that he had deputed two additional district and sessions judges to supervise the maintenance staff which will help improve conditions at district courts.
He said the Building XEN was responsible for dilapidated condition of courts.
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